Awards
- Winner of <DIV>Winner of the Westerners International Co-Founders Awards of the Western History Association, 1990.</DIV> 1990
Overview
Think cowboys croon lullabies to cattle at night? Not exactly. Whether 'round the campfire or in the barroom, cowboys love a lusty chorus of the kinds of songs their mothers never taught them. Guy Logsdon painstakingly sought out, listened to, and recorded the bawdy songs of America's real working cowboys. Honest and hilarious songs ranging from ""Little Joe, the Wrangler"" to ""Boring for Oil"" and ""Old Man's Lament"" reveal an affection for humor--sometimes crude, sometimes clever--as well as an affable warts-and-all view of human nature. Winner of the Westerners International Co-Founders Awards of the Western History Association, 1990.
Full Product Details
Author: Guy Logsdon ,
Guy Logsdon
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.626kg
ISBN: 9780252064883
ISBN 10: 0252064887
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 April 1995
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
"""One of the finest works to come out in recent years on cowboy songs, in addition to being the first good collection of the cowboy's bawdy material. . . . A must for anyone who is a student of cowboy music--or anyone who just likes the sound of dirty subject matter rhyming.""--Hal Cannon, Journal of Country Music ""A brave and honest step toward increasing our understanding of what cowboys really sing.""--Bob Bovee, Old Time Herald ""A thorough piece of scholarship and collectanea and a valuable, welcome addition to cowboy song literature.""--Keith Cunningham, Mid-America Folklore ""Logsdon has written the book with a scholar's attention to detail. But what shows through the scholarship is the collector's enthusiasm for the material. . . . A superb job in a difficult area.""--Angus Kress Gillespie, Journal of American History ""A major contribution to the folklore and popular culture, history, and social psychology of American cowboy culture."" -- Kenneth S. Goldstein, former president, American Folklore Society"
Bawdy material has always been integral to cowboy culture... Logsdon, with great skill and humor, corrects this long-bowdlerized occupational record. -- Archie Green
Author Information
Guy Logsdon lectured and performed as America's Senior Cowboy Song-Poetry Scholar. He was director of libraries and a professor of American folklife at the University of Tulsa. He was the coauthor of Woody's Road; Woody Guthrie's Letters Home, Drawings, Photos, and Other Unburied Treasures and Saddle Serenaders. He died in 2018.
